Ricardo Capanema
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| Full name | Ricardo Esberad Capanema | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Brazil | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 September 1933 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 May 1998 (aged 66) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ricardo Esberad Capanema (19 September 1933 – 10 May 1998) was an international freestyle swimmer from Brazil. At the inaugural Pan American Games in 1951, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he won a silver medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle, along with Aram Boghossian, João Gonçalves Filho, and Tetsuo Okamoto. At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he swam the 400-metre freestyle, not reaching the final.
He won the gold medal at the 1953 Summer International University Sport Week for swimming in 100m backstroke for men at Dortmund in Germany.